Ajaa Jackson
Cochise College
Sierra Vista, AZ
April 1, 2011
 Born
in Stratford
 Husband and father
 London playwright
http://www.vanishingshakespeare.org/
“. . . Shakespeare himself must have
been conscious that his plays
possessed a charm that made him a
magician among writers” ( Wright
and Lamar x).
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Physical
Political
Spiritual
“The settings of [Shakespeare‟s]
plays. . .[are]. . .imaginative
displacements into alternative
worlds that remain strangely
familiar” (Abrams 496).
Gonzalo:
“Though this island seem to be desert/ . . .
Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible/. . .
The air breathes upon us here most
sweetly” (Shakespeare II, i, 37-49).
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“Shakespeare mutes the normally
exciting dramatic material. . . . The
main action of The Tempest
becomes Prospero‟s managing things
so that the other characters fail to
act out their desires” (Cantor 68).
•Prospero represents rightful
justice
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“. . .Shakespeare is dealing now in spiritual
rather than social transformations, and
his dramatic design is an unfolding of a
preconception—the „project‟ to which
Prospero refers, whose end is contrition
and then reconciliation . . .” (Rockett
77).
Antonio:
“And look how well my garments sit
upon me/ . . .My brother‟s servants/
were then my fellows; now they are
my men” (Shakespeare II, i, 12-14).
Spirituality
and Music
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Who is Beethoven?
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Lived 1770-1827
World affairs
Fell deaf, 30 yrs. old
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“. . . the designation
„Tempest‟ has become
firmly rooted in the
professional culture as the
nickname for Op. 31, No.
2” (Gordon 13).
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Beethoven, Ludwig van. Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2. 1803. Alfred, 2008. Print.
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas.
Cutts, John P. “Music and the Supernatural in The Tempest: (1958).” Shakespeare: The Tempest: A
Casebook. D.J. Palmer, ed. Nashville, TN: Aurora, 1970. 196-211. Print.
Gordon, Stewart. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas. Vol. 3. Alfred, 2008. Print.
Rockett, William. “Labor and Virtue in The Tempest.” Shakespeare Quarterly. (Winter, 1973) Vol. 24,
No. 1. Folger Shakespeare Library, JSTOR. 77-84. Web. 20 Oct. 2010.
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Louis B. Wright and Virginia A. LaMar, Eds. The Folger
Library General Reader’s Shakespeare. New York: Washington Square, 1961. Print.